Indeed, my dear, I do; and better, I think, if pos-sible; because I have been putting part of our con versation upon paper, and so have fastened your merits on my memory.

God bless you, madam, I am gone; and away she tript.

But I will make her amends, before I go to rest; and confirm all that I said to her in the chariot; for most cordially I can.

I am, my dear Lucy, and will be, Ever yours,

HARRIET BYRON.

Letter VL

Mr. Deane to Mrs. Selby.

London, Friday nij;ht, March 17, You wished me, my dear Mrs Selby, as I was obliged to go to London on my own affairs, to call at Colnebrook, and to give you my observations on the state of matters there; and whether there were any likelihood of the event we are all so desirous should be brought about; and particularly, if an opportunity offered, that I would at distance sound Sir Charles himself on the subject. I told you, that you need not be afraid of my regard to our dear child’s delicacy; and that she herself should not have reason to mis-trust me on this nice subject.

It seems his great engagements in town, and some he has had in Kent, have hindered him from giving LordL.and hissisters,muchof his company, though our Harriet is there; which they all extremely regret.

I dined at Colnebrpt)k. Lord L. is a very worthy and agreeable man. Lady L. and Miss Grandison are charming women. Miss Jervois is a pretty young lady. But more of her bye-and-bye. The cou-sin Grandison you spoke of, is gone down to Gran — dison-hall, whither Sir Charles himself thinks short — ly of going But this and other distant matters I refer to our Harriet’s own account.

My visit to Sir Charles is most in my head, and I will mention that, and give place to other obser-vations afterwards.

After dinner I pursued my journey to London. As my own business was likely to engage me for the whole time I had to stay in town, I alighted at his house in St. James’s Square; and was immediately, on sending in my name, introduced to him.

Let me stop to say, he is indeed a very fine gen-tleman. Majesty and sweetness are mingled in every feature of his face; and the latter, rather than the former, predominates in his whole behaviour. Well may Harriet love him.

I told him, that I hoped on my coming to town on particular affairs, he would excuse the intrusion of a man who was personally a stranger to him; but who had long wished for an opportunity to thank him for the relief he had given to a young lady, in whom I claimed an interest that was truly paternal. At the same time I congratulated him on the noble manner in which he had extricated himself to the confusion of men, whom he had taught to find out, and to be ashamed, that they were savages.